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Happy Birthday, Cy Twombly!

Posted 04.25.2012

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Happy Birthday to Cy Twombly, the lanky Virginia-born painter who became an expert amateur. He would turn 84 today, if he were still with us. Twombly ...

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Cy Twombly's Luscious Photography

Posted 02.02.2012

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Cy Twombly was one of the greatest artists of our generation. His paintings, cryptic fields of "calligraffiti," derailed the course of art history...

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Art Brut Goes Mainstream

Vivian Norris | Posted 11.17.2011

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Vivian Norris

For me, that is true art. The artist becomes a kind of healer/shaman; and we who finally have access to these miraculous pieces, become initiated into worlds which take us places we have never been before.

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